Nguyen Phan Nguyen
Blacksburg,VA
Summary
Driven by a passion for leveraging AI to create and innovate, I bring advanced proficiency in Python, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics. My expertise in Data Science, Data Analysis, and Software Engineering enables me to deliver impactful solutions that drive business value and solve complex industry challenges, particularly through my ambition to pioneer research in AI-driven music technologies.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Quality Engineering Intern
Marriott International
06.2025 - 08.2025
- Executed, analyzed and fixed test scripts for the Marriott Bonvoy mobile app for iOS and Android scenarios across 11 languages through Eclipse, Browser Stack, Qmetry, Harness, and Jira.
- Invented a new AI Translator system that helps testers working on 11 languages, improving overall efficiency.
Student Researcher
Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science
01.2023 - Current
- Advisor: Dr. Tu Vu, Faculty Researcher at Google DeepMind (tuvllms.github.io)
- Second Author: Search Engine Augmented Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01062)
Artificial Intelligence Intern
FPT Software
05.2024 - 11.2024
- Company Overview: (IT Services Company)
- Took initiative to validate customer requirements, built architecture, prototype, and secured AI-Mosaic-Art Project.
- Led a team of 5 interns to research, finetune DC-GAN, Neural Style Transfer, Image Inpainting, Blending models.
- Generated 100% scale AI art for a construction team to design pillars in the UNESCO-partnered art festival.
- Enhanced and integrated speech-to-text into a real-time image generation web app using Websocket and FastAPI.
- Improved handwritten flowchart-to-editable slides accuracy from 72% to 93% with YOLO, Azure, and OpenCV.
Research Assistant
Generative AI Project: Singing Voice Synthesis
11.2023 - 03.2024
- Company Overview: (Led by Google Developer Expert)
- Engineered a vocoder model with real-time phoneme data for precise consonant and vowel replication in 'AI singer.'
- Reduced music annotation and vocal data normalization time by 12 hours per song for a dataset of 100 songs.
- Streamlined lyrics preprocessing using Python, Spitfire Audio, REAPER, and Praat, saving 5 hours of model training time through accent normalization, tone visualization, phoneme alignment, and Legato transitions.
Autonomous System Engineer
Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team
01.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: (30-year-old Virginia Tech Team, sponsored by General Motors)
- Unified real sensor data into a single camera frame, ensuring precise alignment of all Cadillac Lyriq detections.
- Engineered a time sync vehicle object module that fused multi-camera sensor data by interpolating sensor gaps.
- Developed and tested autonomous driving algorithms in MATLAB using camera sensors for highway scenarios.
Data Science Mentor
Virginia Tech College of Science
08.2024 - 12.2024
- Mentored 12 students in Python, machine learning, data analysis; assisted professors with curriculum development.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computational Modeling and Data Analytics, Minor in Economics
Virginia Tech
05.2027
Skills
- Python, Azure Services, SQL, R, Docker, React, TS, MongoDB, MATLAB, APIs, Arduino, Java, TEDx speaker about AI
Projects
Interactive Music Storytelling: RAG-based platform, personalized song recommendations and podcast creation | Digital Twins for Motors Project: IoT devices, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, Azure Digital Twin, Predictive Analytics | Meta-consciousness for Test Takers and Success Seekers: Published 1,000 books with Thaihabooks, digital versions on Amazon Kindle, and received a CEO recommendation.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Lovealot.Together (400K followers and 22M+ likes on TikTok)
Chief Operating Officer & Data Analyst
- Analyzed the TikTok algorithm and viewing data to create videos tailored to viewers' interests across 10 countries.
- Implemented a Selenium bot to like comments, increasing daily viewer interactions by 5% and improving retention.
- Secured a paid partnership with Vietnam’s number 1 pay TV provider, promoting products for 10+ brands.
The Strike Organization
Connected Garden and Connected Minds Founder
- Spearheaded a smart multi home-gardens system and prototype and predictive modeling for psychological research.
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate
- Microsoft Certified AI Fundamentals
Timeline
Software Quality Engineering Intern
Marriott International
06.2025 - 08.2025
Data Science Mentor
Virginia Tech College of Science
08.2024 - 12.2024
Artificial Intelligence Intern
FPT Software
05.2024 - 11.2024
Autonomous System Engineer
Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team
01.2024 - Current
Research Assistant
Generative AI Project: Singing Voice Synthesis
11.2023 - 03.2024
Student Researcher
Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science
01.2023 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computational Modeling and Data Analytics, Minor in Economics
Virginia Tech
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